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This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.”

The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA Results team, in an effort to update the current service responses, which were originally written almost ten years ago. The PLA Results group is looking to the community for feedback on how to update these service responses to better reflect current public library methods and standards.

“A library that offers Local History & Genealogy service addresses the desire of community residents to know and better understand personal or community heritage” (definition care of the PLA Results site). The current version of the Local History and Genealogy service response, is available for review on the PLA Results web site (the file is an Adobe .pdf file, and requires Adobe Reader to view).

Share your feedback on the Local History and Genealogy service response, as well as the starter comments listed below, by leaving a comment on this post page. You can help PLA Results bring public library service responses into the 21st century!

Local History and Genealogy Discussion Group Comments

Should these two services be split?

• No, they go together and shouldn’t be separated.
• Libraries can choose to emphasize one or both of the aspects.

Go back to the Service Response Discussion Index.

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